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These functions should return SETOF TEXT[], like the core functions they are wrappers for; but they were incorrectly declared as returning just TEXT[]. This mistake had two results: first, if there was no match you got a scalar null result, whereas what you should get is an empty set (zero rows). Second, the 'g' flag was effectively ignored, since you would get only one result array even if there were multiple matches, as reported by Jeff Certain. While ignoring 'g' is a clear bug, the behavior for no matches might well have been thought to be the intended behavior by people who hadn't compared it carefully to the core regexp_matches() functions. So we should tread carefully about introducing this change in the back branches. Still, it clearly is a bug and so providing some fix is desirable. After discussion, the conclusion was to introduce the change in a 1.1 version of the citext extension (as we would need to do anyway); 1.0 still contains the incorrect behavior. 1.1 is the default and only available version in HEAD, but it is optional in the back branches, where 1.0 remains the default version. People wishing to adopt the fix in back branches will need to explicitly do ALTER EXTENSION citext UPDATE TO '1.1'. (I also provided a downgrade script in the back branches, so people could go back to 1.0 if necessary.) This should be called out as an incompatible change in the 9.5 release notes, although we'll also document it in the next set of back-branch release notes. The notes should mention that any views or rules that use citext's regexp_matches() functions will need to be dropped before upgrading to 1.1, and then recreated again afterwards. Back-patch to 9.1. The bug goes all the way back to citext's introduction in 8.4, but pre-9.1 there is no extension mechanism with which to manage the change. Given the lack of previous complaints it seems unnecessary to change this behavior in 9.0, anyway.
The PostgreSQL contrib tree --------------------------- This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be part of the main source tree. This does not preclude their usefulness. User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML documentation. Most items can be built with `gmake all' and installed with `gmake install' in the usual fashion, after you have run the `configure' script in the top-level directory. Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or types. In these cases, after you have installed the files you need to register the new entities in the database system by running the commands in the supplied .sql file. For example, $ psql -d dbname -f module.sql See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this procedure. Index: ------ adminpack - File and log manipulation routines, used by pgAdmin by Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> auth_delay Add a short delay after a failed authentication attempt, to make brute-force attacks on database passwords a bit harder. by KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com> auto_explain - Log EXPLAIN output for long-running queries by Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp> btree_gin - Support for emulating BTREE indexing in GIN by Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> and Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> btree_gist - Support for emulating BTREE indexing in GiST by Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> and Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> chkpass - An auto-encrypted password datatype by D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net> citext - A case-insensitive character string datatype by David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com> cube - Multidimensional-cube datatype (GiST indexing example) by Gene Selkov, Jr. <selkovjr@mcs.anl.gov> dblink - Allows remote query execution by Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> dict_int - Text search dictionary template for integers by Sergey Karpov <karpov@sao.ru> dict_xsyn - Text search dictionary template for extended synonym processing by Sergey Karpov <karpov@sao.ru> earthdistance - Functions for computing distances between two points on Earth by Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to> and Hal Snyder <hal@vailsys.com> file_fdw Foreign-data wrapper for server-side CSV/TEXT files by Shigeru Hanada <hanada@metrosystems.co.jp> fuzzystrmatch - Levenshtein, metaphone, and soundex fuzzy string matching by Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> and Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org> hstore - Module for storing (key, value) pairs by Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> and Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> intagg - Integer aggregator by mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com> intarray - Index support for arrays of int4, using GiST by Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> and Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> isn - PostgreSQL type extensions for ISBN, ISSN, ISMN, EAN13 product numbers by Germán Méndez Bravo (Kronuz) <kronuz@hotmail.com> lo - Large Object maintenance by Peter Mount <peter@retep.org.uk> ltree - Tree-like data structures by Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> and Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> oid2name - Maps numeric files to table names by B Palmer <bpalmer@crimelabs.net> pageinspect - Allows inspection of database pages Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com> passwordcheck - Simple password strength checker Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at> pg_buffercache - Real time queries on the shared buffer cache by Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> pg_freespacemap - Displays the contents of the free space map (FSM) by Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> pg_standby - Sample archive_command for warm standby operation by Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> pg_stat_statements - Track statement execution times across a whole database cluster by Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp> pg_test_fsync - Test different wal_sync_method settings by Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> pg_trgm - Functions for determining the similarity of text based on trigram matching. by Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> and Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> pg_upgrade - Support for in-place upgrade between major releases of PostgreSQL Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> and others pgbench - TPC-B like benchmarking tool by Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp> pgcrypto - Cryptographic functions by Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee> pgrowlocks - A function to return row locking information by Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp> pgstattuple - Functions to return statistics about "dead" tuples and free space within a table by Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp> seg - Confidence-interval datatype (GiST indexing example) by Gene Selkov, Jr. <selkovjr@mcs.anl.gov> sepgsql - External security provider using SELinux by KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com> spi - Various trigger functions, examples for using SPI. sslinfo - Functions to get information about SSL certificates by Victor Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru> start-scripts - Scripts for starting the server at boot time on various platforms. tablefunc - Examples of functions returning tables by Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> test_parser - Sample text search parser by Sergey Karpov <karpov@sao.ru> tsearch2 - Compatibility package for the pre-8.3 implementation of text search. Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, based on code originally by Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> and Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>. unaccent - Unaccent dictionary for text search Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> and Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>. uuid-ossp - UUID generation functions by Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> vacuumlo - Remove orphaned large objects by Peter T Mount <peter@retep.org.uk> xml2 - Storing XML in PostgreSQL by John Gray <jgray@azuli.co.uk>